March 2013 Update

Dear brothers in Christ. 

Let me share an update of the activities of the churches in Mexico. We are very thankful with God because he has been good with us; the new year brings new challenges but also new hope and a opportunities to share the gospel with others.

CAMPAIGN (DARE TO FOLLOW HIM).   

  This year we decided to take a commitment of for 40 days as a church, 40 days to renew our relationship with Christ and grow as disciple. Each person will be reading a book based on the gospel of Mark that has 40 lectures (from February 11th to March 23rd), each home bible study will be having special studies, and each Sunday will have a special emphasis. This is also a great opportunity to share the gospel with other using the book or inviting people to the home bible study. We are having this camping in both churches (Roca de Vida del Valle and Roca de Vida San Lorenzo) 

10 PEOPLE GOT BAPTIZED

We were blessed to see 10 new believers got baptized two weeks ago. At the end people brought some food and we have a party for God! Praise God!!

DISCIPLESHIP 2.  

We started a new training course for leader called Discipleship 2. Our goal is to equip leaders with tools to help them to teach and preach the Bible to others. 25 people are involved in this training. (12 from del Valle and 13 from San Lorenzo). Please Pray that God may use this brothers and sister in Christ.

CELEBRATION TO PLANT A CHURCH

Planting churches is the best way to fulfill de Great Commission. They are several ways to plant new churches; one is to start with special activities for children. This coming April 20th we will have a special celebration for kids to present the gospel and to help to plant a church in Ecatzingo, a town that doesn’t has an evangelical church. This is the way we are working helping “IGLESIA CRISTIANA AGAPE” to plant a church in Ecatzingo, Estado de Mexico (2 hrs. from Mexico City).

PRAYER REQUEST

1. God may provide to pay the facility for the church Roca de Vida Del Valle.

2. May god bless the churches with grow and new believers

3. Blessing for the training in Discipleship 2

4. God may bless the just baptized believers

5. For the plans for the new church in Ecatzingo, Edomex

6. For wisdom and grace to work with pastors in Mexico

7. God may bless my daughter and her studies en South Carolina and Andres in Toronto.

Hey everyone,
   I know that I have not blogged about Mexico in quite some time, but we have an upcoming mission trip. We will be doing a medical mission trip to a community outside Mexico City. We will working with local doctors and do some evangelism and well. The dates for the mission trip is September 11 - 17. If you are interested in going please fill out an application. The link is at the top of this blog page. Thanks

Short Term Mission Trips

We have to opportunities to go to Mexico City. July 4th - 11th and July 18th - 25th. If you are interested please fill out the application above. Thanks

Thursday July 29th

It's been a great and blessed week we are are approaching our last day and I think everyone here is torn between the emotion of going home and leaving new friends and family. I know that I have said I would post some pictures and I am sorry I havn't but I will tonight. Look below to see the photos from the VBS and Celebrate. Pray for the parents of the children that are attending the vbs. Pastor David and Pastor Mario will be sharing the salvation message with them at the closing. We want God to move in their lives. Pray for a safe trip home and that everything is on schedule. We shared with Roca de Vida at San Lorenzo, Celebrate Recovery and Perry, Jeri, Adam and Wayne hit one right out of the ball park. The outreach ministry of Roca de Vida is moving in that direction. They are very passionate about starting and may already have someone to lead it. He is a recovered alcoholic and told a little of his testimony. You could feel the presence of God while he spoke and you could see the passion that he has for people with additions. Debbie also shared how God, through celebrate recovery, has moved and healed and restored her family. It's getting late and I need to sleep so that I can be ready for tomorrow. Thanks for your prayers.

Tuesday

Well here it is 12:09 AM Mexico time (1:09am Indiana). The team is doing great Debbie is making friends and loving all the children and I can see God working in her life. Adam gave his testimony at the recovery house. Some of the people there did not want to here about God but had to be at the meeting as part of their recovery. Wayne was in his element at the recovery house. I thought that we would never get him to leave. VBS is growing. On the second day at Ocogtal we had over 130 children and Contreras had 50+. We all have had to be very flexible. The whole team has worked very well together and I have been very amazed at how well they have become a family. Sorry about not having posted any pictures but I left my camera in David's van and can not post any tonight. I need to go to sleep but in my final thought please continue to pray that the rain stays away during the VBS.

1st full day in Mexico

Well as usual it very late (midnight) and we are just going to bed. We have had a great day. We attended 3 church services and saw how God is growing the churches here in Mexico City. We also went to a small market and had tacos for lunch. Tomorrow will start the VBS in Ocotal and Contreras. Please pray that the rain stops and that we can serve the people of those areas God's love. Everyone here says hello and they are all doing well. I will try to take some time to download a few pictures for you to see. Have a great week.

It is 11:19pm Mexico time 12:19 Indiana time, just wanted to let everyone know that we are off to a great start with our mission trip. The flight here was great and we all made it through customs without getting the red light. If you have every gone through customs you'll know what I am talking about. We will attend 3 church services and get ready for VBS tomorrow so be praying for us as we prepare. I will add pictures and blog some more tomorrow night.